Can some one give me a detailed summary on the book The report card by Andrew Clements?

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" Fifth grader Nora remembers everything in her life. From an early age, everything was always very easy for her: puzzles, school work... However, Nora does not like to perform or be pushed around. She in no way wants to attract attention to herself. That's why once she got into grade school, she started to think more "normally". The story begins when Nora has just received her first report card of fifth grade. The results: five D's and one C. Her friend Stephen is very simpathetic and confused, especially when Nora tells him she WANTS to get bad grades.

As she suspected, Nora's parents are furious with her grades. However, Nora has different opinions on grades and tests than her family. She thinks they are "based on a bunch of stupid information that anybody with half a brain can memorize". Nora then has to meet with her teachers, parents and school principal to "discuss why she got the grades she did". The reader will then find out Nora had purposely planned to get bad grades. Then, Nora received F's on all of her final tests. It becomes very clear that Nora is not just an average student; she is a genius. And she knows it. The school then decides to perform some "tests" on Nora, but they are not what she expects."

Andrew Clements is an author of close to two-million-copied bestsellers. One of his pervious books is called The Report Card. This book is what I believe is one of Clement’s best books and should be a bestseller. I guarantee by the time you finish reading this review you’re going to want to go to your local book store and buy a copy. One reason why I liked this book is because the plot is exciting. The characters believe that they could persuade the entire school of students that grades don’t matter. Nora Rowley gets three zeros on three tests, on purpose. Nora and her best friend, Stephen Curtis, (at the end of page 148) gives every student in the school a flyer, which says the following: “CALLING ALL KIDS!! Tired of stupid test??? Tired of fighting for grades???? Do you hate those Mastery Tests????? Then join rebellion!!!!! ENLIST TODAY!!!!! HOW? SIMPLE!! GET A ZERO ON YOUR NEXT TEST!!! LET’S SHOW EVERYBODY THAT WE CAN THINK FOR OURSELVES!!!!!!!!! Questions? Ask Stephen Curtis.” This was a great example of how the plot is exciting because I wouldn’t go and tell every student to flunk every test they will have that day. The characters in this book are brilliant. Nora is actually a genius for an 11 year old girl. She got all D’s, and has been hiding that she is a genius, since she was a baby because she doesn’t want to be different from everyone else. She noticed how people react to her being smart and she doesn’t want that. After Nora gets zeros on three tests Dr. Trindler the school’s guidance councilor finds out about Nora’s zeros and decides to give Nora a WICS2 or formally known as an IQ test. Mrs. Byrne the school’s librarian talks to Nora (at the last paragraph of page 87) about Nora’s IQ results: “There’s more to it, then that. One hundred seventeen? That’s what your IQ would be if you were sixteen-years-old. But since you’re only eleven, your score translates to a higher IQ; much higher according to the test, you have an IQ of one hundred eighty-eight. That’s way up near the top scale. And Dr.Trindler doesn’t know what to think.” This is an excellent quote because it shows that Nora is a genius. The author’s writing style is how Clements use his words. Clements uses fine thought and vocabulary throughout this book. Nora is in Mrs. Zhang’s science class (at the very end of page 115) and is acting obnoxious, after Mrs. Zhang is done talking about how sunlight travels. “I raised my hand and when Mrs. Zhang nodded at me, I said, ‘But what about thought? If you say the word, ‘sun’, my thought can travel all the way across then 93 million miles to the sun and back again in about one second. So since there are 420 seconds in seven minutes, doesn’t that mean that thought travels 840 times faster than light?” I also thought this was an excellent quote because it shows how Clements uses his vocabulary. This is a good book, as you can see. Go to your local book store and buy a copy. It will be the best book you ever bought, and it will be worth every penny. "

"No one does school stories better than former teacher Andrew Clements. He knows the inner workings of schools, he writes for middle graders better than almost anyone, and his stories are usually effervescent delights that flow seamlessly along from start to perfect finish: not the way things do work, but the way they should.
Here he has decided to go for more realism. Her protest doesn't sweep the school, make the national news, or start a revolution. Rather than an unabashed triumph over the system of testing and grades, Nora actually accomplishes little besides being allowed to have some say in the direction of her life. Since he has so clearly stated the problems with this system, some readers may find the ending a bit disappointing, a rarity in Clements's novels. But it may get both kids and adults thinking about the subject and, since he has provided no template for real change, wondering for themselves how things could be made different.
From the Book:
"And that stuff about working up to my full potential -- who gets to say what my full potential is? An IQ test? Shouldn't I have something to say about what I want to accomplish? What if what I really want is to be normal? What if being normal is my big goal in life? Is there anything wrong with that? To be happy and read books and hang out with my friends and play soccer and listen to music? To grow up and get a job and read the newspapers and vote in elections and maybe get married someday? Would that be so terrible? I know that I'm different, and I hope I'll always be smart. But I don't want to get pushed ahead so that I'm always trying to do what someone else thinks a person with my intelligence ought to be doing. I want to use my intelligence the way I want to use it. And right now I want to be a normal kid."
Plot Summary:
Nora is a genius, but since early childhood she has hidden that fact from both teachers and family. She doesn't like to be different, to perform, to have people stare at her, to be expected to achieve according to someone else's rules. So she goes underground, keeps her giftedness to herself, and tries to fit in. But in fifth grade everything changes.
When she sees her best friend feel stupid because he did poorly on the standardized achievement tests, she decides to protest grades by getting low ones. But the attention this draws from her parents and the school leads to her secret being revealed, and her worst fears being realized: her school wants her in the gifted program, her parents want her in an exclusive academy, and everyone starts treating her differently. Perhaps a school-wide testing protest is the answer."

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i read this book last year so i hope i can remember here's gos nothing i felt sad when the other girl who was invisible didn't want to be visible again. Because who wouldn't want to be visible? it would suck to be invisible because people would think you are dead or something. The fact that Bobby actually made himself visible again by using the electric blanket again was kind of unrealistic. I mean what are the chances of him being invisible in the first place, and what are the chances of him becoming visible again using the same thing that made him invisible. I wonder why it got so serious that bobby "wasn't at home" (he was actually at home the whole time just invisible so no one ever saw him) that the police had to come and search the Phillip household. Even though Mr and Mrs. Phillips had said that Bobby was in Florida with his relative. That's all the info I can give you hope it helps!!!! Good luck on ur quiz!!! i dont have the book with me so this might not be perfectly accurate but i hope its close enough!

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There is a fifth grader named Nora. Although she ins't just any ordinary fifth grader. She is a genius. She has learned to read at the age of two. She was incredibly intelligent for her age. But did her parents know. No. Did her friends and siblings know. No. No one know. She kept it a secret for her whole entire life. It's because she didn't want people to think she was different. She didn't want a competition between the intelligent kids and the not so smart kids. SHe just didn't want that, so she kept it a secret and no one knew. Until a tragic event happened and everyone knew her secret.

Nora's parents saw what she got on her grades. She got a lot of D's and 1 C! Of course she made all of those grades on purpose. But they didn't know. Nora's parents were worried about her grades, so they held a meeting with all her teachers, the principal, Nora and the parents. They asked Nora why she got those grades. She simply replied, because I like the shape of D's. Everyone fell silent for a moment. Then the principal said the meeting was adjourned. Nora thought to herslef "1.I had a gang of grownups thinking about my grades. 2.Plus they were all convinced I was an idiot. 3.My mom was so upset she couldn't chat. 4. My dad was ready to take a punch at someone. 5.The school was going to do some "additional evaluation" Of me. ANd she decided that, all in all, it had been a pretty good day."

Mrs.Byrne called Nora to meet with her. They talked about why Nora got her grades. Nora blurted out the truth. SHe could trust Mrs. Byrne. Mrs. Byrne said she wouldn't tell anyone and she was the first person to know about Nora's secret.

During the beginning of fifth period Nora wasn't in her regular class and she wasn't taking a regular test. She was with Dr.Trindler taking an IQ test. After 2 long hourse Nora finshed the test. SHe wasn't aloud to know her score. But Mrs.Byrne told Nora that her tests told that Nora was a genius and that her scores is a score of an 8th grader. Dr.Trindler demanded for another test because he thought the tests scored were wrong and too high.

Just before she was going to retake the test something made Dr.Trindler change his mind about her retaking the test. During lunch Nora had said something absouletly brilliant. Merton was bullying Nora's friend, Stephen. He was bullying him because Stephen thought that people was go on the sun, but Merton disaggreed. So he teased him and called him an idiot. ANger filled Noar and she burst. SHe screamed in Merton's face saying that ina thousand years the sun will lose its heat and people iwll walk on the sun. SHe also stated more brilliant things. Dr.Trindler heard her terrific and intelligent speech. Her didn't make her retake the test. She told Dr.Trindler that her test score was too low and that she made it lower on purpose. Then their conversation was gone. Nora returned to class.

Stephen called Nora and the phone. He said that Nora was a fool to say that to Merton. Then Nora

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